KNOWLEDGE CENTER
- History of Identity Theft
- A Look at identity Theft Statistics
- Credit Monitoring: Protecting Yourself Against Identity Theft
- Understanding Identity Theft: How an ID Thief Gets Your Information
- Phishing Scams: Understanding and Protecting yourself
- Identity Theft and Your Rights
- The Internet and Identity Theft: What You Must Need to Know
- Preventing Identity Theft: Protecting Personal Information
- Common Identity Theft Scams
- Suspicious Signs and Signals
- A Look at Credit Card Fraud: Identity Theft In the 21st Century
IDENTITY THEFT LINKS
Identity Guard
Identity Guard is an identity theft protection service offered by Intersections. Like many other similar programs, Identity Guard provides internet and credit report monitoring as well as assistance with closing accounts after a theft has occurred.
Unlike many of its competitors, Identity Guard offers different packages of services so that customers can tailor the product to their needs.
Features
Identity Guard offers three packages of services at different price points. All three offer the basics: credit bureau monitoring for one of the major bureaus, internet surveillance to ensure that your Social Security number or credit card or bank account numbers are not being used, and access to your credit score. Subscribers have access in the basic package to their credit score from one credit bureau. These are all of the services offered in the first package, Watchful Eye.
The Extra Caution package also includes monitoring of all three of the major credit bureaus and access to your credit scores from all three bureaus as well as all of the base services.
The Total Protection package adds in anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for internet surfing, a password protector called ID Vault that keeps passwords and other vital information safe from phishing schemes and other identity theft initiatives, encrypted internet access to protect you from keylogging, and monitoring of internet chat rooms and newsgroups to ensure that your personal information is not being used there. The Total Protection package also includes a Lost Wallet service to help you quickly cancel your credit cards and freeze bank accounts in the event your wallet is stolen. It also provides subscribers with up to $2,000 of emergency cash from your account.
Pricing
The three Identity Guard packages are priced as follows: Watchful Eye is $9.99 per month, Extra Caution is $14.99 a month, and Total Protection is $17.99 a month. The base package comes with $2,500 in insurance against loss due to identity theft. The two larger packages include $1,000,000 in insurance coverage.
Identity Guard does not have an option to include children in your plan.
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